So I’ve had these little lighty things for a few months now and have been plugging away in Max with them making some fun stuff – head to Cycling ’74 to see that.

But I turned it to the modular the other night to see how it would team up with the Expert Sleepers FH1 – if you don’t know it you should because it’s easily the best eurorack module out there for interfacing a vast array of midi controllers, iPads etc. etc. and giving a level of control to the modular not normally possible without a whole lot more gear/hp/case space.

The BLOCKS team up well, but unlike the Seaboard RISE which you can switch into single channel midi mode the BLOCKS is stuck in full 16-channel MPE midi mode, which results in a whole lot of data being thrown at the FH1! It’s up to you to harness that data and use a custom script on the FH1 to real it into something useful. Here are three custom scripts that do that, these are built for myself so bare in mind I had a target scenario in mind. But by looking at how I wrote them you should be able to adjust them to what is suitable for you. At the moment I’m not addressing any expanders, that will come in a future post 🙂

I’ve also been working on getting my album finished and have another live performance coming up at La Cita on September 6th in Downtown L.A. I’m very excited to grace the walls of this legendary latin bar with my sounds.